Clogher Lower

21 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Clogher Lower, from 1,193 m² to 127,490 m² (12.75 ha, 31.5 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Clogher Lower in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

No planning application touches the townland of Clogher Lower in the national file, which goes back to 2010.

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Clogher Lower.

Recorded monuments

• RO032-058 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Marked as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) only on the 1837 ed. of the OS 6-inch map, and situated on a low hillock at the bottom of a N-facing slope. It is not visible at ground level in pasture. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO032-062 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  Just off the crest of a WNW-ESE ridge on a NE-facing slope. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 30.1m E-W; 29.9m N-S) defined by three earthen banks, the outermost of which only survives WNW-N-SE. The inner bank (Wth 3-3.7m; int. H 0.2-0.5m; ext. H 1.5-1.8m) and hedge is separated by a fosse (Wth of top 4.3-6m; Wth of base 2.6-3.2m) from a middle bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.2-1.2m; ext. H 1.5-1.7m), while a second fosse (Wth of top 4.6-5.4m; Wth of base 2.7-3.3m) separates it from the outer bank (Wth 2.6-3.1; int. H 0.4-1.3m; ext. H 0.9m) WNW-N-SE (max. surviving dims 56.8m E-W; 56m N-S). There is an entrance at SE through the middle (Wth 2.5m) and inner (Wth 2.4m) banks with a causeway (Wth 4.5m) across the inner fosse. Rath (RO032-063----) is c. 100m to the E. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1962).

• RO032-063 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the steep NE-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 39.9m N-S; 33m E-W) defined by a flat-topped earthen bank (Wth of base 4.5-5.8m; Wth of top 2-3m; int. H 0.4m at N to 1.1m at S (upslope); ext. H 0.9m at W to 2m at N) which is incorporated into a field bank SE-SSW, with traces of a fosse (Wth of top 6m; Wth of base 2m; D 0.5m) E-ESE. There is an entrance (Wth 1.9m) at ENE. Rath (RO032-062----) is c. 100m to the W and rath (RO032-064----) is c. 210m to the ESE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO032-064 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  On the NE-facing slope of a WNW-ESE ridge. Subcircular grass-covered area (dims 33.3m E-W; 29.7m N-S) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3.5-4m; int. H 0.5-0.6m N-E to 0.8-1.1m S-W; ext. H 1.1-2m). The monument is overlain by a NNE-SSW field bank at W and the perimeter is reduced to a scarp (H 0.4m) W of this. There are traces of inner facing-stones on the bank at E and the entrance (Wth 2.2m) is at ESE, but there is no visible fosse. The bank is badly poached N-E. Rath (RO032-063----) is c. 210m to the WNW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO032-068 Barrow - unclassified
  Description

  On a level landscape. D-shaped grass-covered mound (dims of base 13.6m NNE-SSW; 9m WNW-ESE; H 2.4-2.6m) which is truncated by a N-S roadway and rockery on the E side. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010

• RO032-072 Enclosure
  Description

  On a NE-facing pasture slope. Reported by Jean-Charles Caillere. Visible on Google Earth aerial imagery (20-3-2020) as the cropmark of a subcircular enclosure (est. diams. c. 45m E-W; c. 40m N-S). A ringfort (RO032-064----) stands c. 150m to the SSW. See attached image: RO032-072----_01 Google Earth aerial image, 20-3-2020. Close-up snip at top right. Ringfort (RO032-064----) also visible at bottom, left-of-centre. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 1 February 2023

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Clogher Lower.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Clogher Lower.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Clogher Lower with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.

Name

Clogher Lower

Area

988,431 m² (98.84 ha, 244.25 acres)

Civil parish

Kiltullagh, and its townlands

Barony

Castlereagh

Electoral division

Kiltullagh, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Kiltullagh electoral division: 1,185 people in 460 households; 84% of households own their home; 44% of homes were built since 2001; 15% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 6% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Betal, Clogher Upper, Flaskagh More (Co. Galway), Glenmore, Lowberry, Rathlena

Placenames

Clogher Lower on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.